The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-12-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

moncy there is in the world until he
reads the assets Of insurance companies
printed on the backs OF their folders
Exchange.
A recent work on physical beauty
INSERTS that tho tendency in women Of
the present day is toward smallncss OF
stature. Big women, in fact, are going
out Of fashion. '
1t is said that Norwegian cheese is
beginning to be imported in quantity
into English markets in competition
with other foreign goods, and that the
offerings have met with ready sale.
The following Is the assessed valuo
OF stock in Texas Horses and mules.
1,193.522 head; value, $32, 221.771. Cat
tic. 6,741, 1854; value. $4S. 1854 The
decrease in value from cattle Of last
year is $6. 900, 900. - Boston Budget. &
| "A man in Oil City with small oil
well would not accept the terms that
the Standard Company offered him
for the produce Of his we'll. and to dis
pose Of it started little refinery of his
own and peldled the oil about town.
Now his product has become famous
for superior excellence, and he supplies
the whole Oil City retail trade.
"A carrier pigeon sent from Cort-
landt street in New York alighted the
other day on the window of shop in
Spencer, Mass. Under the birds wing
was paper with this written on it:
.Give me corn. and water to drink and
battle in, and let me CO." The owner
of the shop did as requested, and the
pigeon, much refreshed. flew away.
The automatic weighing machine
in the Broad street station at Philadel-
phia. during the past six months, reg
istered a larger collection than had
ever been made by similar machine
anywhere in the world, although they
are placed in the Grand Central in this
city, and at all the other big stations
in this country and in France and En-
gland. Y Sun. Dattt
The boys on an English reform
ship in the Mersey mutinied recently,
and for several hours were in possess
sion of the ship. They smashed the
furniture and did great deal Of dam
age, after which seventeen of the worst
ringleaders lowered boat and escaped
to the shore. Some of them were re
captured.
Visitor at Sunday-school (makins
few remarks)-"Of course, children,
you all know why we come to Sunday
school. Will that bright little boy on
the front seat stand up and tell usP My
young friend, why do you come to
Sunday -sci,oolp' Bright Little Boy
(explosively)-"Coz nom makes me
come"
-Europe's annual expenditures for
armies and flags is s3.867, 800, 600. The
national debts incurred by war nggre-
gate 1874, 113, i O57. $50, on which $1,OOO,-
900, 900 is annually paid out for interest.
The war question is rapidly merging
into financial one, ifit is not there al
ready. Only three or four nations are
left who can afford even a short war.
AT q recent meeting of the Amer
lean Society of Civil Engineers Curl
GUS statement was made concerning the
durability of the sun-dried bricks used
for building purposes in Peru. It was
said that these bricks seemed to i'm
prove in quality with age; so that when
a building three centuries old was torn
down in Lima, the bricks from the
ancient walls sold for u higher price
than new ones.-M Y. Ledger.
els your hoss scarey?'' asked a
Massachusetts farmer of pair ofpretty
girls who had stopped in front of his
farm house to gather autumn leaves.
Moo. l guess not" was the an
swer. "Whyp" 20, nothing, only I
didn't know, and as was jest goin' to
kill n pig II Here he stopped, for
the girls hustled into the wagon with
agility. exclaiming, as they put whip to
their steed: IF the horse isn't, we
are. IN Y Sun.
WHATS this gathering of boys in
the shed this afternoon, James?" in
quired his mother. "Well. you see.
ma." replied Jimmy Tuffboy, 1--WE are
going to form a walnut trust on the
plan Of the rubber trust, you see." II
don't quite see." "Well, this is the
way: The boys all agree to got as
many walnuts as ever they can an pool
in together I'm interested cause TIM
going to store tho poo" "-Harttord
Post.
In Silesia. recently, a man was
before the magistrate for
the slumbers of citizen.
The noise which disturbed his slumbers
was the growing of cockerel. The
wise magistrate decided that the man
aad right to keep his cockerel, that a
could not live without crow
ng, and the complainant was chal-
enged to produce q cockerel which did
lot crow. The case was dismissed.
j. Howard Cromwell, speaking Of
belts and pullcys in his recently issued
book on that subject. says that the
'rigin, age. first application and uso of
what is known to us as the ..endless
oeltand pulley" are entirely unknown.
As far back into the history Of tho
sncients as we can see by means of the
earliest mechanical records. we find the
,ndless belt running continuously
.round the pulley, precisely as it does
;o-day. ''' f' iift
A Norwich, Conn.,. man who had
stocked his pond with rare and hand